Santorini Earthquake Live News | State Of Emergency In Greece Island After Hundreds Of Earthquakes

The seismic activity rattling Santorini and other Greek islands is not over and the biggest quake yet could be still to come, according to seismologists. A state of emergency has been declared in the idyllic Greek island of Santorini amid a series of near-constant tremors in recent days, which have almost emptied the famous Greek tourist haven of visitors and residents. The largest tremor so far was recorded so far is a quake with a magnitude of 5.2. Sitting near the boundary of the massive African and Eurasian tectonic plates, Santorini often experiences seismic activity, but rarely so intensely for so long.

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  1. About 1600 BCE severe earthquakes on Santorini were followed by one of the largest set of volcanic eruptions in ten thousand years. Massive tsunamis struck Crete. This marked the beginning of the end of the the earliest great European civilisation, the Minoans.